A Kent State University graduate recently showed a photo of herself with a gun on campus, sparking debate.

The student wrote in a message on Twitter, stating “Now that I graduated from @KentState, I can finally arm myself on campus.”

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The university prohibits students, staff, faculty and people doing business with the university from having a deadly weapon on campus grounds.

But university spokesman Eric Mansfield said she would be permitted under state law to open carry outdoors on the campus as a graduate. Visitors aren't allowed to do so inside university buildings and vehicles under the policy.

WOIO-TV reported the student, 22-year-old Kaitlin Bennett, received death threats regarding the gun, an AR-10, as well as support.

She also said in the Twitter message, “I should have been able to do so as a student- especially since 4 unarmed students were shot and killed by the government on this campus.”

In 1970, the Ohio National Guard, responding to a Vietnam War student protest, shot people in a crowd there, killing four and wounding nine students, bolstering the movement against the war and influencing public opinion.

I remember the Kent State protests as shown on TV when I was a kid. Scared me so badly when I saw it was uniformed officers attacking students. I've carried those images in my mind still today and I wasn't even there. That is why we have a 2nd Amendment